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Conversations with a hit man

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146 points gmays | 6 comments | 01 Jul 25 14:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.959s | source | bottom
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shermantanktop[dead post] ◴[03 Jul 25 04:24 UTC] No.44451615[source]▶
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tomhow ◴[03 Jul 25 05:15 UTC] No.44451848[source]▶
> I quit before I got to anything interesting

This is the kind of shallow dismissal we don't want on HN.

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1. therein ◴[03 Jul 25 07:33 UTC] No.44452563[source]▶
I think it exceeds that bar. If he had said "TLDR" and ended it there, sure but he approached it with humor and with a few quips I found relatively eloquent. I personally don't think there is anything wrong with that.

He is humorously criticizing the author's artistic choices. I think he did it pleasantly enough, how else do we want this to be done on HN?

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2. n4r9 ◴[03 Jul 25 07:57 UTC] No.44452686[source]▶
In my opinion it's a shallow and tangential post. If you're going to comment on aesthetics over substance, at least caveat your comments with that and do it thoughtfully.
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3. jajko ◴[03 Jul 25 08:39 UTC] No.44452930[source]▶
Is bored teenager approach "humorous" and "pleasant enough"? Not really, au contraire
4. stronglikedan ◴[03 Jul 25 14:56 UTC] No.44455715[source]▶
And here I am clicking dead comment links to read tangential posts. How about leave it like it is, where tangential posts can be hidded/flagged/killed but still available to those who want to read them. No one likes a gatekeeper.
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5. n4r9 ◴[03 Jul 25 15:18 UTC] No.44455945{3}[source]▶
I'm fine with leaving it like it is and didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Just saying that a tangential post has a better chance of staying alive if it's thoughtful.
6. pvg ◴[04 Jul 25 00:29 UTC] No.44460229[source]▶
criticizing the author's artistic choices.

There's no mention of 'artistic choices', it's just self-congratulation on one's personal choice to not-read. A perfectly valid choice but it's HN-offtopic since it's hard to square 'curious conversation' with 'trumpeting one's incuriosity'.